Impossible to Imagine More Than Three Dimensions

OTHER PEOPLE IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE THINGS IN MORE THAN 3 DIMENSIONS ME x.reshape( batch_size, n_sentences, n_words, n_heads, n_directions, n_cells)

A four-panel meme contrasts “other people,” who supposedly cannot imagine things beyond three dimensions, with “me,” represented by a rage-comic figure contemplating a complex multidimensional tensor reshape operation. The joke is that programmers or machine-learning enthusiasts imagine abstract high-dimensional arrays naturally, treating a technical function call as an intuitive mental image. EN: A four-panel meme contrasts “other people,” who supposedly cannot imagine things beyond three dimensions, with “me,” represented by a rage-comic figure contemplating a complex multidimensional tensor reshape operation. The joke is that programmers or machine-learning enthusiasts imagine abstract high-dimensional arrays naturally, treating a technical function call as an intuitive mental image.

• @profunctor_io / 3121 2019-09-27